Breaking the rules

I know I said this is for Non-work stuff...........but it's my blog so too bad:P
Finally after like 5 months my baseball cards are out!!! WOOOT!
I designed the Topps Stars and the 2008 Stadium patch cards for the 2008 Topps Baseball card set.

heres the 3 designs i did for the topps cards: the third one being the one they picked.









and here' the final product (i grabbed this pic from Ebay, i actually got 2 of the cards from work, so hopefully i'll stop being lazy and take some better photos of it)




and here's a bad review from "Cardboard Junkie" he reviews all the trading cards and had this to say "Once again there are two inserts in the pack. The Topps Stars card is shiny and glowy and gold and boring. It's a nice card but not my thing."

....awesome. good to see the fans dig my card design:P


-cheers
wheat

Helping out a friend

So my friend Beckett called me up today. He was swamped with work and needed my help to meet his deadlines.

He needed a poster for a company that was gonna use it for.....i really don't know i stopped paying attention when he said he needed help and threw money at me:P

only catch was he needed it in 2 hours. so here it is.




-cheers
wheat

self-sketch

here's the sketch for the teenage vs. 20+ piece i'm working on.
full pencils up soon.





-cheers,
wheat

Finally! new art!

so i've been getting rocked at work, and it's really been a chore to do my own stuff.
but i finally threw some inks and colors on the star wars pic so here it is.





cheers,
-wheat

Drawing on the train..........is rough ><

So a couple of my friends have taken to drawing on the train,
so i decided to give it a try. The fat lady bumping my elbow and
the haggard shakes and turns of the train doesn't really make for
good pieces........plus the next time i decide to draw on the train

i might wanna bring my sketch book and not rely on the scraps of paper
in my backpack:P

so here's some haggard sketchs from a moving train.........sigh






cheers
-wheat

KT Saturday

Well, no new pics this weekend.
But I figured i'd post something so here's some pics from the
KT Saturday (aka me hanging with my kid day)
This saturday we went up to my old school ala The Joe Kubert School
and paid a visit to my friend Ben Dale who teaches there every Sat.
It was fun, Ben and KT really hit it off.

Ben even gave her a stuffed gorilla that she now calls "Ben"

here's the pix







so I promise that I'll post up the colors for the Star Wars pic this week and if all goes right some Thor pencils!! :P

oh and the Iron Man movie RULES!!!! Thx Brian, Brian, and Steve it was an awsome time!
........even though Steve didn't get the after the credit thing and how cool that was

cheers
-wheat

WIP- works in progress

Well, I've been trying to update this blog every couple of days or so......but I kinda got wrapped up in a new video game:P

so here's some stuff I was workin on until the Xbox bug got me.








cheers
-wheat

Ilustrator Warm Up- Gear Head

I wanted to do a warm up 2night and I couldn't figure out what to do. While I was thinking about it I glanced over and saw the Gear Head issues that a old friend penciled gave me at the NYC comic con........and it all fell into place.

so here's a simple illustrator warm up.

hit the link to check out/order some Gear Head and check out Kevins blog for the updates KevinMellon.com







cheers
-wheat

A lil Speed Colorin'

My friend Ben and I are totally stoked on those stupid Mighty Muggs toys, and when I made up my "Mighty Muggs that they'll never make" (scroll down if ya don't know) Ben rocked my out acouple of his own in pencil.

So when I did my warm up today I decided to speed paint one of Ben's Muggs in good ol Photoshop.

here's Ash from the Evil Dead. Hit up Ben's site for some Ben goodness www.zombiejr.com





cheers
-wheat

Warm up Sketch-MegaMan

Nothing much to post up today, but I really want to post stuff every couple of days so here's one of my warm up sketches to get me loosened up.

I'll put some more stuff up later this week:P





I'm still debating whether or not I actully like this pic. and if I should ink and color it....i dunno...so far looking at the "not likely" vote.

cheers
-wheat

NYC Comic Convention!

Well, Felix hooked me up with a 3 day Pro Pass to the New York City Comic Con, and it was awesome! Got to hang out at his table and meet up with some old friends!

here's a pic I did saturday




and here's some phone pic from the con (thx for the shakey cam on my Mantra pic Felix you suck:P)


Here's me and Jules hanging out with Mantra! LOLZ



And after 2 and a half hours on Sunday we finally found Spongebob Squarepants!!!!



Felix and Jules posing




random shenanigans (i make furries do my bidding)



and the BEST pic EVER!!! felix getting a massage!!! hehehehe



cheers
-wheat

Galactus Commission

Loose Pencils

Capt. Cavemaaaaaaan! ............for chris wildar:P

Sometimes you don't ask why, when a friend calls out a superhero for you to draw...
you draw it. 'nuff said:P





cheers
-wheat

Week2 Theme Zombies!!!!!!

It's kinda sad that I was really stoked about this theme to finally do something new and get gritty and gory with it..........and it turned out not so gritty and not so gory...oh well.

here's the cuddly Zombie Hunter.


cheers
-wheat

Zombie roughs for Cannibal Mermaid

here's the thumbs for the roughs, and loose pencils.
this is about as tight as my pencils get since I'm gonna ink and color it.
didn't like the hooded guys mouth so I erased it.....and forgot to draw it on before I scanned it in...now im actully thinking of re-doing the zombie behind the hoodie guy..he doesnt look that "zombie-like". The 2nd zombie face turned out much better..still not what I was going for, but it better than the first one:P

and the text is just there for placement, I'll give it a treatment and a different font in the finishes

-cheers
wheat

Boba Fett for the Cannibal Mermaid debut!

Well, the group blog is finally up www.cannibalmermaid.blogspot.com
and the first theme this week was the one and only Boba Fett!!!!
here it is:




and here's the loose pencils:

I really dug how this piece turned out. and I'm wicked exicted to see everyone elses pics.
hit the group blog to see what the other cats did!

cheers
-wheat

T-shirt designs

Here's hopefully the first of many T-shirts designs.
Ben Dale kicked it off with the pencils and I finished it off with the
colors and inks.
More to come:P


you can check out more of stuff from Ben at zombiejr.com

Mighty Muggs They'll Never make........

Mighty Muggs are a cool new toy from Hasbro, they're weird little deformed toys of Star Wars, Marvel, and Indiana Jones. In other words they're bizarre and weird and only cost 10 bucks, which makes them rule more. Heres what they look like.





So I decided to make some of my own, the ones that Hasbro will probably never make. I started off just doing Deadpool and it kinda snowballed into 6 more after him.

So here they are.......starting off with the BADDEST DUDE IN THE MARVEL UNIVERSE!!!!!!
.......*cough*cough* DEADPOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOT!












ones I didn't do but really wanted to: Terminator, Tron, Thundercats, Brad Pitt from Fight Club, Galactis.....

Every man needs his own logo!

Well, it was a slow day at work friday so I decided to make myself a new logo.
-wheat

The Wheat Art Blog: getting started

I figured it was about time that I did a blog where I could put some of my pix that I didn't do at work.

It's not that I don't dig my job, but it's hard to post stuff from there because all of the stuff that we do there has confidentiality agreements, so basically I'm really stoked when I work on a project and wanna post it right away but I can't until the movie comes out or the book comes out which is usually 2-3 months after we worked on it...........and by that time I'm sick of looking at it and don't feel like posting it.

So this place is for all my freelance projects, random free time sketchs, and various levels of garbage.

So here's some freelance stuff I did for a T-shirt company.